Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Wilfred Wilson Gibson (
1878-
1962) was a British
poet, associated with
World War I but also the author of the popular
Flannan Isle. Gibson was born at
Hexham,
Northumberland and left the north to work with the poor in the East End of
London. It was in London that he met both
Edward Marsh and
Rupert Brooke, becoming the close friend and later a literary executor of the latter. His active service was brief, but his poetry belies his lack of experience,
Breakfast being a prime example of ironic war verse written during the very early stages of the conflict.